Delhi excise policy scam case: BRS leader K Kavitha will today (March 16) face the Enforcement Directorate (ED) questioning for second time within the nationwide capital in reference to a cash laundering case linked to alleged irregularities within the Delhi excise policy.
Heavy safety has been deployed exterior the Delhi residence of BRS MLC forward of her questioning by Enforcement Directorate within the Delhi excise policy case on Thursday.
ED Questioning Round 1:
Earlier, she was deposed earlier than ED for round 9 hours on Saturday (March 11) for recording her assertion. The 44-year-old daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao left the federal company’s headquarters on APJ Abdul Kalam Road at round 8:00 pm amid a heavy presence of her supporters.
She had reached the ED workplace from her father’s official residence on Tughlak Road, positioned about 1.5 kilometres away, at round 11:00 am. Official sources stated through the 9 hours she spent on the ED workplace, she was confronted with the statements made by Hyderabad-based businessman Arun Ramchandran Pillai, an arrested accused within the case who allegedly shares shut ties together with her, aside from these of some others concerned within the case.
Kavitha’s assertion was beforehand recorded below the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they stated. Pillai, an alleged frontman of the “south group”, was arrested by the ED earlier this week. Pillai, in the meantime, has moved a metropolis court docket accusing the ED of forging his statements on this matter. There was a heavy presence of Delhi Police and central paramilitary forces personnel for barricading the ED workplace because the supporters of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader staged a protest, throughout each Kavitha’s entry and exit from the ED workplace.
Kavitha not too long ago asserted throughout a press convention that she had accomplished nothing incorrect and alleged that the BJP-led Centre was utilizing the ED because the saffron celebration couldn’t acquire a backdoor entry in Telangana. The “south group”, in accordance to the ED, “comprises” Sarath Reddy (promoter of Aurobindo Pharma), Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy (YSR Congress MP from the Ongole Lok Sabha seat in Andhra Pradesh), his son Raghav Magunta, Kavitha and others.
The ED additionally alleged in Pillai’s remand papers that he represented the benami investments of Kavitha within the case. The BRS leader was earlier questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in reference to the case. The ED has thus far arrested 12 individuals within the case, together with former Delhi deputy chief minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia.
It has additionally recorded the assertion of Butchi Babu, a chartered accountant allegedly linked to Kavitha, the place he stated “there was political understanding between K Kavitha and the chief minister (Arvind Kejriwal) and the deputy chief minister (Sisodia). In that process, K Kavitha also met Vijay Nair on March 19-20, 2021”.
Nair was arrested within the case by each the ED and the CBI. Butchi Babu has been arrested by the CBI. According to Butchi Babu’s assertion, Nair was “trying to impress Kavitha with what he could do in the (excise) policy”. “Vijay Nair was acting on behalf of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia,” the assertion recorded by the ED learn.
It is alleged that the Delhi authorities’s excise policy for 2021-22 to grant licences to liquor merchants allowed cartelisation and favoured sure sellers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a cost strongly refuted by the AAP. The policy was subsequently scrapped and the Delhi lieutenant governor really helpful a CBI probe, following which the ED registered a case below the PMLA.
(With businesses inputs)
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